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Examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Providing examples from fiction and factual film and television news, as well as digital media, this book introduces the notion of moving images as weapons in armed conflict. It is useful to students of war and security studies, and media and communication studies.

This book provides a perspective on the current status of bioimaging technologies developed to assess the quality of musculoskeletal tissue with an emphasis on bone and cartilage. It offers evaluations of scaffold biomaterials developed for enhancing the repair of musculoskeletal tissues. These bioimaging techniques include micro-CT, nano-CT, pQCT/QCT, MRI, and ultrasound, which provide not only 2-D and 3-D images of the related organs or tiss...

Understanding sequence data, and the ability to utilize this hidden knowledge, creates a significant impact on many aspects of our society. Examples of sequence data include DNA, protein, customer purchase history, web surfing history, and more. Sequence Data Mining provides balanced coverage of the existing results on sequence data mining, as well as pattern types and associated pattern mining methods. While there are several books on data m...

Mit dem Crashkurs Pädiatrie haben Sie genau das richtige Buch, um den gesamten Prüfungsstoff der Pädiatrie kurz vor der Prüfung zu wiederholen. So funktionierts: Kleine, sinnvolle Lerneinheiten schaffen den ÜberblickZahlreiche Schlagwörter in den Randspalten rufen Gelernetes in ErinnerungÜber 30 Röntgenbilder und farbige Abbildungen klassischer Kinderkrankheiten mit Hautbeteiligung veranschaulichen den Stoff So füllen Sie Ihre Wissenslücken ...

One of Sophocles' more accomplished dramas, the Electra has always generated a good deal of scholarly debate. This edition, the first full-scale commentary on any play of Sophocles since the nineteenth century, explores afresh longstanding controversies such as the moral status of the killing of Clytemnestra, while also investigating many subjects which have traditionally attracted less attention, such as the place of rhetoric within the drama...

Qui était le premier directeur du Musée national suisse ? Un collectionneur chevronné, un généreux donateur, un marchand d¿art ancien ou un spéculateur ? Cet ouvrage éclaire le parcours d¿Heinrich Angst (1847-1922) depuis ses premiers pas dans le commerce de la soie jusqüà son accession au rang d¿expert reconnu internationalement. Angst est l¿interlocuteur privilégié de maisons de ventes aux enchères, de marchands d¿antiquités et de responsabl...

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Comparative in structure and covering an extensive number of transition countries in its survey, this comprehensive book overviews the development of the banking systems in Central and Eastern European since the communist era until the present time.

Focuses on how teachers can use their transferable skills in a variety of contexts and settings across the educational sector, with a view to: combining with a part-time teaching role, supplementing early retirement, changing career. This book explores the many different skills that a teaching career develops.

Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies, bringing an emphasis on empirical work to a heavily theorized area.

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Les échanges entre la France et le Japon connurent une évolution historique remarquable, d'abord fondée sur le rapport de forces, puis, le temps de la diplomatie succédant à celui des armes, sur un désir de l'autre et de sa langue. Ce livre en retrace le cheminement, abordant certains aspects historiques de cette relation, évaluant sur des points circonscrits les conséquences esthétiques, littéraires, philosophiques et spirituelles des contact...

Making sociological sense of the idea of whiteness, this book skilfully argues how this concept can help us understand contemporary societies, bringing an emphasis on empirical work to a heavily theorized area.

Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called nineteenth-century evangelist of sea power. Chinese analysts invoke Mahan's writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. This book aims to test the interplay between Western military thought and Chinese strategic traditions. It examines how Mahanian thought shaped China's encounters on high seas.

Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 within four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic influence, multilingual speech production models, the multilingual lexicon and the impact of bi/multilingualism on cognitive development.

Upon its first publication, Loving with a Vengeance was a groundbreaking study of women readers and their relationship to mass-market romance fiction. Feminist scholar and cultural critic Tania Modleski has revisited her widely read book, bringing to this new edition a review of the issues that have, in the intervening years, shaped and reshaped questions of women's reading. With her trademark acuity and understanding of the power both of the ...

Aamjiwnaang is the name the Saulteux Band of Ahnishenahbek (Chippewa) gave their hunting territory that encompassed both sides of the St. Clair River and the adjacent lands in the southern part of Lake Huron. The book focuses on four generations of Chippewa chiefs beginning with Young Gull who led a group of Saulteux people south from Lake Superior in the first decade of the eighteenth century. Young Gull's son Little Thunder, grandson Red Sky...

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Here is the story of Allan's first true love, Marie Marais.

Walk down the typical city street in America and you will see church after church, all with different beliefs. What is even more intriguing is the fact that most of them claim to get their beliefs from the Bible. Who decides which interpretation is right? In this book, Ken Schenck explores why Christians believe so many different things about the Bible and suggests the best way for Christians to use the Bible with integrity.

Collected here are stories, prayers, and songs of the Navaho people including A Tale of Kininaékai, A Prayer of the Second Day of the Night Chant, A Prayer of the Fourth Day of the Night Chant, The Story of Bekotsidi, and Protection Song (to be sung on going into battle).